Dems in Uproar over Fox Plan to Cover Debate

[marmar]

from the SF Chronicle, via CommonDreams:

Published on Friday, February 23, 2007 by the San Francisco Chronicle
Dems in Uproar over Fox Plan to Cover Debate
by Joe Garofoli

The first presidential primary is 11 months away, but liberals are arguing among themselves over how to best reach new voters -- and whether to cooperate with one of their biggest media nemeses. Their dilemma:

Should we Fox?

"Fox," as in partner with the Fox News Channel. Liberal bloggers and the online political powerhouse MoveOn.org launched a campaign Thursday to persuade the Nevada Democratic Party to boot Fox News as the broadcaster of the state's August Democratic presidential debate.

The reason, according to an online letter MoveOn sent to 2 million of its members Thursday, is that "Fox is a mouthpiece for the Republican Party, not a legitimate news channel. The Democratic Party of Nevada should drop Fox as its partner for the presidential primary debate." Joining the chorus Thursday was liberal filmmaker Robert Greenwald, the director of the anti-Fox film, "Outfoxed," who released a video online of Fox's coverage of Democratic candidates.

But the Nevada party organizers -- and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean -- said Thursday that while they may not think much of Fox's reporting, they want to reach out to viewers of the largest cable news network, one with double the number of prime-time viewers of CNN. And one whose believability is much higher with Republicans than Democrats, according to a 2005 study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0223-04.htm

[zbdent]

1. Which means whomever the Dem candidate is

will have the lighting which causes the makeup job to compare unfavorably to Tammy Fay Bakker's mascara-running cryfest ...

[Benhurst]

2. Fox should be boycotted by all our candidates. Recommended. NT

[marmar]

4. I tend to agree....

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[LibDemAlways]

3. No Fox....and Dem candidates ought to be

badmouthing the scummy bogus "news" repuke liefest at every opportunity. The average idiot who watches FAUX is so ignorant and brainwashed, he/she would never vote for the Dem anyway. And I, for one, would feel the need to bathe immediately after tuning in. No....No....Never